by SEACC | Jul 17, 2024 | Blog, Featured, Inside Passage
It’s time to call for an end to cruise ship scrubber pollution in Alaska waters Do you want the good news or the bad news first? The bad news is large cruise ships visiting Alaska are discharging millions of gallons of pollution into Alaska waters daily. Most large...
by Nathan Newcomer | Jun 20, 2024 | Blog, Featured, Tongass
Big news for big trees? The Biden Administration has released draft plans for old-growth protections in our National Forests. What does that mean for the Tongass? Well, it’ll take some deep reading to know for sure, but you know we’re up to the challenge. Meanwhile,...
by Maggie Rabb | Jun 7, 2024 | Blog, Featured, Inside Passage
Response to a 2015 SEACC petition acknowledges Alaskans’ high fish consumption rates and disproportionate health impacts Great news for people who love fish — we got a response from the EPA about a petition we filed way back in 2015 saying they’re requiring Alaska to...
by SEACC | Apr 17, 2024 | Blog, Featured, Inside Passage
How long does it take you to read a 300-page novel? Now, how long do you think it would take to read 294 pages of a mine’s 5-year operating plan? OK, you don’t really have to answer that — we can tell you now that two weeks to read the Palmer...
by Nathan Newcomer | Apr 3, 2024 | Blog, Featured
Earlier this year, Alaska’s (now former) State Forester, Helge Eng, said the Division of Forestry & Fire Prevention and the Alaska Mental Health Trust are “charged with essentially maintaining a timber supply to keep the (logging) industry going until federal...
by SEACC | Mar 27, 2024 | Blog, Featured, Inside Passage
Reports of more than 105,000 gallons of mine waste spilling from a ruptured tailings pipeline at Coeur Alaska Kensington Mine in late January hit the news yesterday. Read the story from KTOO While Coeur Alaska claims the spilled tailings are geochemically inert and...
